Product profile
NEST
NEST is XTEND docking and charging station for autonomous UAV operations, enabling portable continuous readiness for defense missions.
Facts
- Company
- XTEND
- Product type
- hardware
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- Persistent remote UAS operation through autonomous docking and battery exchange
- Website
- https://www.xtend.me/nest
About NEST
NEST is XTEND's portable docking station for launching, recovering and charging compatible unmanned aircraft. It supports remotely managed missions by sheltering the aircraft, automating turnaround and connecting field deployment with XTEND's control software.
NEST supplies the field infrastructure around a compatible aircraft. Supported drone models, battery handling, weather protection and mission continuity depend on the selected NEST and aircraft configuration.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Drone dock
Core: Battery swapping
Function: Service UAVs
Audience: Defence teams
Specifications
- battery_capacity
- 4 batteries
- boot_time
- Under 60 sec
- charge_time
- 100% in 1 hr
- communications
- 2.2–2.7 GHz
- dimensions
- 63 × 37.8 × 16.5 in / 160 × 96 × 42 cm
- encryption
- 256 AES
- interface
- ATAK; RTSP; C2 API
- power
- battery swap time: 180 sec
- weight_kg
- 86 kg
Operations
- Deployment environment
- defense sites, remote and austere locations
- Primary user
- defense operators, security teams
- Workflow
- UAS docking, battery exchange, remote mission sustainment
- Interaction model
- remote supervised autonomy
- Mobility class
- fixed or transportable docking station
- Product detail
- NEST is drone support infrastructure, not an aircraft; keep the specific dock label but remove it from the public Drone bucket., drone_infrastructure_v1, a0f5496f2ac945f5a8a11b2b0c938f4b56e33a2868afc44f736af0fef555dd18, user-provided product hero image, Drone Docking Station, existing_category_first, https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/hero-media-2026-06-14/nest-product-hero-2026-06-14.png, products/hero-media-2026-06-14/nest-product-hero...
Recent verified events
- AM General selects XTEND NEST and XOS for MIMIC-V — 2025-10-13